Thank you for your perspective and I agree as repetitive as it is, I hope hn can continue to surface disagreement/substantial views on a topic.
These comments don't stay up much anymore and I can't tell if it's structural to the forum (flag weight + statistical mechanics of votes + guidelines) or if it's the userbase sentiment.
Except for now HN doesn't do that. Every single comment that points the issue with Grok being built by a pro-fascist team is being "locked" so that they can't be upvoted
For what it's worth, I've watched the vote fight on my comment swing back and fourth over the last hour. It got flagged, unflagged, and flagged again. It appears to now be locked and dead.
But I think it represents real malaise in the community. It's not a moderator plot, people here really just don't care and might even support this.
We really are in the minority of opinion for giving a damn about liberal democracy.
I completely agree. But this has been true for many years. This sort of head in the sand compartmentalization seems to be a core feature of the culture here.
I think I already made my point, but I'll make it again.
Nobody both worked and spent their money to get Trump elected like Musk. 300 million to his 2024 campaign [1]. DOGE. On-stage endorsements. Nobody even came close.
No, other big labs are not "innocent little virgins", but they're not even in the same solar system of harm as Musk. To hand-wave at the differences is to permit them.
How many years will go by before people will stop talking about the CSAM thing that happened for only a few days as if its still happening? FWIW, it's bad it was generated, but equating it to harming of real children I think is not a good thing.
And methane is a large percentage of all power production in the US. So again that also applies to all the other data centers. (And FWIW they've been winding down and shutting down the on site methane generators.)
Thank you for your perspective and I agree as repetitive as it is, I hope hn can continue to surface disagreement/substantial views on a topic.
These comments don't stay up much anymore and I can't tell if it's structural to the forum (flag weight + statistical mechanics of votes + guidelines) or if it's the userbase sentiment.
Except for now HN doesn't do that. Every single comment that points the issue with Grok being built by a pro-fascist team is being "locked" so that they can't be upvoted
For what it's worth, I've watched the vote fight on my comment swing back and fourth over the last hour. It got flagged, unflagged, and flagged again. It appears to now be locked and dead.
But I think it represents real malaise in the community. It's not a moderator plot, people here really just don't care and might even support this.
We really are in the minority of opinion for giving a damn about liberal democracy.
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Yeah, not touching xAI for several glaring reasons. I share your confusion.
I wont touch his products and neither will my organization
I completely agree. But this has been true for many years. This sort of head in the sand compartmentalization seems to be a core feature of the culture here.
It’s either compartmentalization, or something else
Definitely not a musk fan, but what exact is your point? Other big labs aren't innocent little virgins.
I think I already made my point, but I'll make it again.
Nobody both worked and spent their money to get Trump elected like Musk. 300 million to his 2024 campaign [1]. DOGE. On-stage endorsements. Nobody even came close.
No, other big labs are not "innocent little virgins", but they're not even in the same solar system of harm as Musk. To hand-wave at the differences is to permit them.
[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/donald-tr...
Yes, but the other ones we don't like for ethical reasons, rather than religious reasons.
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Musk is literally burning methane for funsies, and generating CSAM and getting sued for it.
Handing corporate code secrets to his AI model is... unusually trusting.
How many years will go by before people will stop talking about the CSAM thing that happened for only a few days as if its still happening? FWIW, it's bad it was generated, but equating it to harming of real children I think is not a good thing.
And methane is a large percentage of all power production in the US. So again that also applies to all the other data centers. (And FWIW they've been winding down and shutting down the on site methane generators.)
And no corporate code was handed to AI models.
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I have to say grok, grok, grok, grok, grok. Also, anyone who doesn't modulate across models and run their own memory system is an idiot.